Mr. Johnson is preceded in death by mother Lacy Boston, step-father R.E. Boston; father Willard Johnson and step-mother Dorothy Johnson; brothers Cleophas and Billy Johnson; as well as several aunts and uncles.

Also surviving are 10 great grandchildren and three great, great grandchildren; siblings: Jimmy (Jodean) Atnip of Watertown, Junior Atnip and Dean Thompson – both of Smithville as well as several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Patton is preceded in death by husband Howard D. Patton, son Boyd Lee Taylor, three brothers and three sisters.

HERMITAGE -- Funeral services have been scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, September 17 at the Hermitage Church of God for Mr. Hargrove, 77, of Hermitage.

A painter and a US Air Force veteran, Mr. Hargrove died Sept. 14, 2008 at his residence.

Known as "Pee Wee" to his friends and family, he was the son of the late Jessie and Lera Forster Hargrove and was a member of Cumberland Lodge No. 8 (Free & Accepted Masons), the Al Menah Shrine Temple and the Grace Place Church of God.

The family will receive friends Wednesday at the church from 10 a.m. until the funeral. Burial will be at the Spring Hill Cemetery with Military Honors.

MT. JULIET -- Funeral services will be conducted 10 a.m. Wednesday, September 17, at Bond Memorial Chapel for Mrs. Parrish, 69, of Mt. Juliet. A well known artist, Mrs. Parrish died September 13, 2008.

She was a member of Center Chapel Church of Christ, was a 1957 graduate of Lebanon High School and an outstanding member of the Wilson County Master Gardener Association.

Mrs. Parrish was the daughter of the late, Thurman J. and Gertrude Swindell Stone. Interment will be at Mt. Juliet Memorial Gardens

General News

LEBANON -- An overflow crowd of about 500 people attended Monday's County Commission meeting to support full funding for the $93 million school budget.

Teachers reasoned, children cried, and parents insisted that the commissioners had a responsibility to fund Wilson County Schools at a rate that wouldn’t force the Board of Education to cut jobs, coaching supplements or reading programs, during the public hearing which preceded the commission meeting.

The commission responded with a split vote to accept a budget which required a 20-cent tax increase, and moved 5.89 cents from a sanitation fund to the school budget, but did not fully fund the budget originally presented by the school board. That would have required adding 34 cents to last year’s school budget, and the combined total only added 25.89 cents.

One parent, Jeff Mockery, said he had moved 2,000 miles to live in Wilson County because he believed it would be a good place to raise his family. He then asked the commissioners how he was supposed to be proud of a county that wouldn’t fully fund education.

Teaching assistant Beverly Mitchell pointed out that not funding the education budget would hurt those children who need extra help to learn.

A Lebanon couple was killed Saturday afternoon, Sept. 13 when their Harley-Davidson motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck while on a pleasure drive in Grundy County.

Funeral services for Tommy L. and Carolyn Kay Shumaker of Lebanon will be held 2 p.m., Thursday at the Roller-Citizens Funeral Home in West Memphis, Ark.

The family will receive friends Wednesday between the hours of 4-9 p.m. at the funeral home, located at 201 North Pine Street, West Memphis.

Mrs. Shumaker, 62, was the office administrator for West Main Realty & Auction, a local real estate brokerage firm. Her husband, 65, was the Safety Manager and recruiter for Ozark Truck Line. They were members of the Maple Hill church of Christ.